Christmas Anytime Slices

I know you want more Christmas recipes and particularly using Mincemeat, so before I sign off for the festive period I will try and oblige!

This recipe is from Australia and was given to me by my cousin Jan, from Melbourne. They don’t  call it Mincemeat as we do, but Fruit Mince. The recipe also used a few ingredients that I have had to guess at the translation. I have taken lightly packed brown sugar as soft brown and firmly packed as Muscovado. Anyway it worked, and I used dark muscovado for the topping that mixes so well with the mincemeat. Mmmm the smell was so good. The recipe uses mostly cup measurements.

You will need an approx 12 x 8 inch tray bake tin, lightly greased then lined with parchment. Pre heat your fan oven to 170C

Base:

3 oz of softened butter

⅓ of a cup of soft brown sugar

1 cup of plain flour

Beat the butter and sugar til light and creamy then work in the flour. Press evenly onto the base of your tray bake pan. The back of a spoon makes it easy. Bake for about 10 mins.

Meanwhile

The topping:

2 large eggs

½ cup light or dark muscovado sugar

1 teaspoonful vanilla extract

1 tablespoonful plain flour

½ teaspoonful baking powder

1½ cups of desiccated coconut

1 cup of Mincemeat [use a good one! or your own]

1 tablespoonful brandy

juice of half a lemon

In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, sugar and vanilla til slightly thicker and frothy. Fold in the flour, coconut, bp and Mincemeat plus the brandy and mix well.

Spread over the base and level off. Sprinkle over the lemon juice and bake for about 25 mins until firm.

Cool in the tin for a short while then lift out using the parchment and slice.

Dust with icing sugar to serve. With clotted cream of course!

Yum yum.

Thanks Jan x

Note: Jan named them “anytime” because they were too delicious to only bake at Xmas.